Board of Directors:

Aldo Manos
Arthur Chen
Thomas Fisher



Officers:

Director: Arthur Chen

President: Thomas Fisher

Senior Vice President: Aldo Manos

Secretary and Vice President for Education: Arthur Chen

Treasurer and Vice President for Finance: Robert Sykes

Vice President for Science: Piere Carlo De Cessaris

Vice President for Programs: Francesco Calzolaio

Vice President for Legal Affairs: Francesca Rech

A biography of each person may be found by clicking on the person's name.

Aldo Manos: Biography coming soon
CV to be placed here.

Arthur Chen, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Arthur Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.Arch. from North Carolina State University, and B.Arch. from Tamkang University in Taiwan. He has taught courses and design studios in the fields of history, theory and criticism. Working on the issue of architectural representation has led him to investigate a cultural history of East meeting West: the Jesuit transportation of linear perspective to the East in the 18th century. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and a research scholarship from the Oriental Foundation. Chen has been working with Instituto Cultural de Macau to organize the International Symposium on the Culture of Metropolis in Macau in September 1998.

Thomas Fisher, Professor in the Department of Architecture and Dean, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA), University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Tom Fisher has a B.Arch. from Cornell University and Master of Interdisciplinary Studies from Case Western Reserve University. He has served as the historical architect for Connecticut's State Historic Preservation Office, as a designer and project manager for architectural firms in Ohio and Connecticut, and as the editorial director of Progressive Architecture and Building Renovation magazines. Fisher has written and lectured widely about theories of design, practice, and technology and has given numerous seminars on architectural criticism. His recent writing efforts include introductions to three books and articles in Harvard Design Magazine and Society of Architectural Historians Journal. In addition to his on-going construction of a book of essays, Fisher has been instrumental in the revival and revision of the new biannual CALA Works.
Publications:
1. Cities Ignore Design at Own Risk - an article written for the Star Tribune.
2. What Memory? Whose Memory? - a chapter from a book on Memory and Architecture currently being considered for publication by a university press.

Robert Sykes ASLA: MLA, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Robert Sykes holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Landscape Architecture, with Distinction (MLA) from Harvard University. Before joining the faculty, he practiced as a registered landscape architect in Minnesota and Massachusetts with projects in seven states. He has taught courses and design studios focusing on basic design, urban and suburban planning and design, and landscape technology. Over the last 15 years he has been a principal investigator on many funded research projects focused on the relationship between urban development and water management. He has written and lectured widely on the effects of land design on stormwater quantity and quality. He, along with two colleagues, developed the idea of water quality cooperatives and founded and obtained novel government permits for the first two such cooperatives to be established in the United States.

Piere Carlo De Cessaris: Biography coming soon
CV to be placed here.

Francesco Calzolaio: Faculty of Architecture at the University of Architecture of Venice (IUAV) and Resident Faculty of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Francesco Calzolaio works in architectural design developing projects for an accessible and sustainable territory. He also teaches with a particular consideration for the interface between the academic world and civilian society. Author of, among other publications, "Mobility Housing, community housing for persons of limited mobility" published by Gangemi, Rome 1996. In the Universitiy of Architecture in Venice (IUAV) he developed two years of research (MURST) entitled "Town Planning faced with new issues : the elderly and the disabled ", coordinated by Franco Mancuso. Calzolaio started teaching in 1993 in Rome, leading the professional vocational course for "Experts for urban accessibility" promoted by Fondo Sociale Europeo and Associazione Nazionale Tutela Handicappati Invalidi (ANTHAI). Invited in 1998 by Giancarlo De Carlo to teach at the 'International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design' (ILAUD), Venezia, dedicated to the design of the Arsenale. On the same issues he taught in the 1999 on the ILAUD again and the final thesis preparation course at IUAV lead by Franco Mancuso. Now he is Resident Faculty in the venetian course of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA University of Minnesota) since 1999. At the moment the following projects are underway in his Venetian office: the Nursing Home for the AISM (Italian Soociation of Multiplis Sclerosis) in Bova Marina (Reggio Calabria), the Berdini house in Macerata, the preliminary design for a spa in Rapolano Terme (Siena).

Francesca Rech: Biography coming soon
CV to be placed here.